Hannah Arendt Quote

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1968) - ISBN: 9780547545929